hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures
boy i wonder if that had any lasting effects
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i don't usually want to tell people to get more Mad but honestly i feel like people who are into consent and bodily autonomy should be 1000% more Mad about school than they are
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👋 i'm furious about it (not just about bodily autonomy, normal-school involves the suppression of nearly everything human imo).
but people laugh at me when i tell them this.
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My wife always laughs when I say that in a century our descendants will look back on modern schooling the way we now look at kids in coal mines.
But I'm entirely serious.
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you're def not alone 💪 there's all sorts of literature although i'm not familiar with it, ivan illich is apparently great
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not something i'm going to read more about now - that'd just invoke pointless anger, as i'm not in a phase of life to change that for others.
instead simply trying to give my kids something better (and helping ppl in my network do the same).
narrow now, maybe broad later